90% decrease in power usage / The Sunnyside Sisters B&B

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October 11, 2020
Martijn Broeders
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90% decrease in power usage

We know that, even though the USA is far ahead when it comes to technology, it runs behind The Netherlands when implementing energy efficiences on a individual basis.

One of my favorite things to do in a new home is decrease the energy usage. This time it was huge!!! The average U.S. residential customer uses approximately 909 kWh per month of energy, or around 10,909 kWh per year compared with approximately 290 kWh per month of energy, or around 3,500 kWh per year in The Netherlands.

What I did, I changed all the bulbs with LED.

- 6TL tubes of 55W each into 6TL LED tubes of 24W each.
- 16 outside spotlights of 100W each into 16 outside LED of 11w each.
- 60 candle flame lights of 60W each into 60 LED of 4.5w each.
- 45 bulb lights of 60W each into 45 LED of 4.5w each.
(March 2021, added the direct links to Amazon)

All the LED bulbs have 2700K (kelvin) color to keep the traditional 'warm' feeling.

Result usage:
Previous: 8230W per hour
New: 792.5W per hour

We decreased our power usage by a factor 10!!!! And thus our energy bill!!! Of course the above is only if all lights are on but it is major decrease anyway:-)

A lot is going on…where to start?

comments:

Richard Flapper

October 12, 2020

Excellent!! Yeah, LED lights pretty much cut your energy bill in half! When I realised we had way too many halogen bulbs in the house I immediately ordered 20 something LED replacement lights on Amazon. I saw the energy consumption literally drop from about 400W to below 60W. Another major saving was the replacement dryer. The previous one alone accounted for about 500 euros annually. The new one is around the 180 euros.